1. David La Motta – Technical Marketing Engr.
Chris Rodriguez (C-Rod) – Technical Marketing Engr.
SYN232
Building a Cloud
Architecture and Self-
Service Portal with Ease

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¡ Clustered Data ONTAP, best practices
for the datacenter in the cloud
¡ Orchestrating storage management via
the Virtual Storage Console – demo!
¡ Pedal to the metal: deploying Citrix
CloudPlatform on FlexPod
Agenda

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Clustered Data
ONTAP, best practices
for the datacenter in
the cloud

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vSphere
Clustered Data ONTAP
®
The best storage for the cloud
Non-Disruptive Operations
¡ Upgrade Data ONTAP software
¡ Scale and load balance
High Performance and Scale
Storage Efficency
Multi-Tenancy
DBVDIMessagingERP
Clustered Data ONTAP™

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¡ Provides tenant management
− Share tenants or isolate tenants
¡ Includes FlexVol® volumes and
LUNs
− Can use physical storage on any
node
¡ Includes logical interfaces (LIF)
− LIFs may have an IP or a WWPN
− Can have LIFs on any cluster node
Storage Virtual Machine (SVM)

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Snapshot™
Point-in-time copies that write only
changed blocks. Minimal
performance penalty.
Virtual Copies (FlexClone
®
)
Near-zero-space, instant
“virtual” copies. Only
subsequent changes in cloned
data set get stored.
Thin Provisioning (FlexVol
®
)
Create flexible volumes that appear
to be a certain size but are really a
much smaller pool.
RAID 6 Protection (RAID-DP
®
)
Helps protect against double disk
failure with little performance penalty.
Deduplication
Removes data redundancies
in primary and secondary
storage.
Thin Replication (SnapVault
®
/
SnapMirror
®
)
Make data copies for disaster
recovery and backup using a minimal
amount of space.
Clustered Data ONTAP Storage Efficiency

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Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1
Nondisruptive
Operations
Seamless
Scalability
Proven
Efficiency
• Nondisruptive shelf removal
• Tech refresh automation using
OnCommand® Workflow
Automation
• Microsoft® SQL Server® over
SMB 3.0 with continuously
available shares
• Offbox antivirus
• Automated Workflow
Analyzer (AWA)
• Data ONTAP® Edge for
clustered Data ONTAP
• System Setup
• LDAP over SSL
• Enterprise CIFS
features
• Qtree export policies
• Increased SnapMirror®
and SnapVault® fan-in
• In-place 32-bit to 64-bit
aggregate upgrade

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Nondisruptive Operations Enhancements
¡ Nondisruptive shelf removal
− Continuous data access when upgrading or replacing storage
shelves
− Dynamically assign, promote, and retire storage
¡ Storage refresh automation
− With NetApp® OnCommand® Workflow Automation (WFA), automate
manual steps for upgrading controllers and shelves
− Accelerate storage technology refresh with reduced errors
¡ Microsoft® SQL Server® over SMB 3.0 with continuously available
shares

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Best Practices – NetApp Clustered Storage
• Make sure the root volume is on its own 3 drive aggregate
• Create one data aggregate per controller
• Create multiple volumes on each storage controller (node) for HSD and HVD. Do not place all VDI
sessions in one big volume.
• If switchless storage cluster, ensure the switchless option is set
• Create Load-Sharing mirrors for all the Storage Virtual Machine’s (SVM) root volumes
• Create a minimum of one Logical Interface (LIF) per volume (storage repository)
• Create LIF failover groups, assign them to LIFs and enable the failover groups assigned to the LIFs
• Assign the same port on each clustered storage node to the same LIF
• Ensure Clustered ONTAP is at the latest release
• Ensure shelf firmware and disk firmware are at the latest release

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Best Practices – 10GbE Networking
¡ Use 10 GbE for Server to Storage network and CIFS (TR-3749 page 25)
¡ Separate network or VLAN for Data (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI traffic - TR-3749 page 29)
¡ Segregate the differenty mtu size networks on different storage ports to eliminate the possibility of MTU mismatch errors
¡ Make Data Network non-routable (TR-3749 page 29)
¡ Use jumbo frames on Data networks:
− On Cisco switches: MTU 9000 on servers and storage, MTU max (9198 or 9216 on switches) – TR-3749 page 27
− On Brocade VDX switches: MTU 4000 on servers and storage, MTU max (4208) on switches (Field experience)
¡ Turn off flow control on servers (ESX/ESXi), switches and storage (set to none on NetApp)
¡ Switch ports connected to the NetApp Storage controllers need to be set to edge ports to turn spanning tree is off. Also, ensure portfast
is enabled.
¡ Ensure “suspend-individual” is set to the no option on the switch
¡ Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol over dual switches (LACP and VPC)
¡ Use IP-source LACP load balancing method to the NetApp
¡ Run the data network (Ethernet) on dedicated 10GbE cards (not UTA/CNA cards) in the storage controllers

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Best Practices – Citrix Considerations
¡ Use NetApp’s Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for Citrix XenServer to provision the storage repositories
on the storage
¡ Use the VSC for resizing or applying deduplication to the storage repositories / datastores
¡ Use NFS volumes for the Storage repositories
¡ Do not dedup the write-cache volumes on the storage
¡ Dedup the Infrastructure volumes
¡ Thin Provision the write-cache Infrastructure volumes at the storage layer
¡ Use SMB3 for the PVS CIFS share
¡ Use a Profile manager for profiles and CIFS; we recommend Citrix’s UPM.
¡ Use redirected folders for the home directories on the CIFS shares
¡ NetApp recommends OnCommand Balance to monitor VDI I/O from guests to storage

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Orchestrating storage
management with the
Virtual Storage
Console - demo

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¡ Virtual Storage Console
− Long history
− Orchestration software
¡ VMware
¡ XenServer
¡ RHEV
¡ And now Citrix CloudPlatform
− Similar at its core
Background – History

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NetApp and Citrix CloudPlatform Overlapping
Terminology
NetApp Citrix CloudPlatform
Volume Volume
Snapshot Snapshot
Primary Site Primary Storage
Secondary Site Secondary Storage
Cluster Cluster

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NetApp and Citrix CloudPlatform Overlapping
Terminology
NetApp Citrix CloudPlatform
Volume: NFS volume Volume: VM disk, root or data
Snapshot: volume snapshot Snapshot: VM backup
Primary: SnapVault primary site Primary Storage: hosts VMs
Secondary: SnapVault secondary site Secondary Storage: templates, ISOs
Cluster: collection of NetApp controllers Cluster: collection of hypervisors

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¡ What the integration consists of:
− Backup & Recovery (Vmware, MySQL)
− Storage Provisioning (v1 only NFS)
− Resize, destroy, dedupe
− Storage analytics
− API Integrated
Integration Details

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¡ Strategic alignment – First enterprise-class
storage vendor to provide deep integrations
¡ How is the integration being delivered:
− UI / API Plug-in
− Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 & 8.2.1
− RPM Installer
NetApp Integration into ACS/CCP continued

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¡ Key highlights:
− Easily deployed & managed
− Implements ACS Storage API
− ACS / CCP 4.3
− Released as a Tech. Preview
¡ Future Integrations [TBD]
− VM cloning offload
− SAN
− Backup / Recovery for XenServer
Integration Details continued

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Live Demo

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Pedal to the metal:
deploying Citrix
CloudPlatform on
FlexPod

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¡ Delivered as Cisco Validated Design (CVD)
− Design and Deployment Best Practices
− NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2
− Citrix CloudPlatform 4.2.1
− VMware vSphere 5.1
− Cisco UCS Manager 2.1 MR2
Citrix CloudPlatform on FlexPod Solution

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¡ Multi-tenancy through Storage Virtual Machines
¡ Live migration and failover testing
¡ Leverage Citrix integration with UCS Manager
¡ Other tools used in CVD:
− Cisco NetScaler 1000V Load Balancing
− NetApp OnCommand Balance, VSC for vSphere
− Citrix User Profile Manager on NetApp CIFS / SMB 3.0
¡ Release date: December 2013
Citrix CloudPlatform on FlexPod Solution

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Citrix is now part of FlexPod co-operative
Support Lab
§ Customer calls only one
company and escalation to
other technology partner co-
ordinated in the background
§ Strong relationships among
best-in-class alliance partners
FlexPod®
Hypervisor / OS
Applications
VMware
Redhat
SAP®
Oracle®
VMware®
Ecosystem partners providing application support
Ecosystem partners providing hypervisor/ OS support
Ecosystem partner actively participating in Cooperative
Support Lab
Citrix
Citrix®
Microsoft®
Microsoft

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NetApp Winning Strategy
Goal
Be the storage of choice for the
Apache CloudStack / Citrix CloudPlatform
deployments
Strategy
§ Develop differentiated integrations
§ Develop Citrix CloudPlatform on FlexPod
solution
§ Enable You to win opportunities

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Summary

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Summary
¡ Clustered Data ONTAP lends itself
beautifully to operate and scale in the
cloud
¡ Orchestrating storage management via
the Virtual Storage Console
¡ Citrix CloudPlatform CVD demonstrated
from a practical view how to get there

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Q & A

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¡ Get in touch with David & C-Rod:
− dlamotta@netapp.com, @virtualcrusader
− crod1@netapp.com
¡ Citrix CloudPlatform on FlexPod CVD
− http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/
UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi51_cp421.pdf
Resources

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Appendix

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Citrix CloudPlatform Plugins Screen

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Main Screen

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Storage Controllers

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Primary Storage

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Provisioning Primary Storage
¡ Cloud admin-driven
Primary/ Secondary storage
provisioning
− Single-step provisioning
− Ensure best practices
compliance
− Fast and error-free
− Configuration flexibility to easily
meet tenant SLA needs

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Primary Storage Details (Secondary is similar)

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Storage Analytics – Aggregates

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Storage Analytics – Volumes & Dedupe

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Quickview Operations

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Configurable User Settings

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VM Backup

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Scheduled Volume Backups

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Backup MySQL DB